ism
/ˈɪz.əm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Institute for Supply Management.
name
noun
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is Abbot Samson’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!"
- "If it gives way to sentimentalism, or sensibility, or political mysticism, or adopts an affectation of radicalism, or any other ism, or molds its institutions so as to round out to a more complete fulfillment somebody's theory of the universe, it may fall into an era of revolution and political insecurity […]"
- "An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a deviant or heretical member."
- "In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism."
- "Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism – he should believe in himself."
- "It is important to distinguish between an ism and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not isms. An ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual."